Philster401
Maester
What do you guys think?
Or if your story is based finding and piecing together an object before the enemy destroy's the suviving kingdoms.
There is a logical continuation of this that I see as a major problem with long series.
Ok...first few books, the heroes go up against the dark lord. Dark lord has them outclassed, but the heroes manage to come out on top, often becoming incredibly powerful in the process. Which leads to the problem for the next part of the series:
Now the heroes are the uber-powerful ones. Any conventional villain they tangle with is toast, barring some sort of intrigue or extreme secrecy type deal. So what foe is fit to challenge them? Dark lord mark II? If so, where did this new dark lord come from? If the world is big enough, dark lord II could come from another continent, one unknown or barely known in the heroes corner of the world. This, though, works once, maybe twice.
What I usually see after dark lord II is the original heroes stepping into the background while a new generation takes over.
What do you guys think?